Rebirth: Japanese investor

   Chapter 17 Reading

   Masayoshi Kishimoto found a small bookstore on the corner of the street where he could sit and drink coffee and read a book. Apart from himself, there are no other customers, and it is a deserted scene.

   This is naturally inextricably linked with the Asian financial turmoil. However, this was exactly the quiet place he wanted.

   Kishimoto Masayoshi asked for a cup of freshly ground mocha. He was browsing the books on the shelves here while hearing the noise of coffee beans being ground into powder.

  It is normal to not have comic books, and I don’t think it’s any different. Such a small bookstore with a petty bourgeoisie will not have comic books, even if it is opened in Akihabara.

  The place to read comic books here in Tokyo, in addition to Internet cafes, is a special manga eat tea house. Another good thing about these places is being able to stay overnight.

Going back to the source of history, it was when the RB economic bubble burst. Whether it was salarymen who worked late, missed the last tram, or played late in nightclubs and forgot the time, they all used this. The place to come and deal with one night.

   With the bursting of the economic bubble in the early 1990s, these places gradually became the permanent residence of some people. Later, in addition to Internet cafe refugees, many people will choose a place to temporarily live when they go to Beijing to work hard.

  Kishimoto Masayoshi chose two books, one is "Sanshiro" by Soseki Natsume, and the other is "Kan Worker Ship" by Takiji Kobayashi. These two books are enough to accompany me for a whole afternoon of leisure time.

  Kishimoto Masayoshi is a person who can be both elegant and vulgar, and is completely independent of one pattern. Both "Sanshiro" and "Crab Ship" represent the characteristics of the stages in the development of RB.

   "Crab Worker Ship" depicts unemployed workers, bankrupt farmers, poor students and children aged 14 and 5 who were deceived into being employed by the crab work ship "Hokwang Maru", and then drifted at sea for a long time to engage in primitive, backward and heavy crab fishing.

The   crab worker ship was originally an industrial vessel that could not operate at sea, but it was artificially converted into a fishing vessel that could go to the Kamchatka Peninsula for crab fishing.

  The world's best king crabs are produced in the waters of the Kamchatka Peninsula, where the sea conditions and climate are particularly complex, and a shrimp fishing operation is also carried out. This shows the **** accumulation of primitive capital in the initial stage of capitalism.

  The novel truly exposes the brutal nature of the exploitation and oppression of fishermen by the fishing capitalists and the reactionary army, and correctly expresses the development process of the RB working class from spontaneous resistance to conscious struggle. It is one of the outstanding works in the history of RB modern literature.

   Even in 1997, or twenty years later, or even longer, it is not out of date to read the novel "Crab Worker Ship".

   Even if RB's capitalism develops from the primary stage to the advanced stage, the relationship between the exploiters (dominators) and the exploited (dominated ones) has never changed.

  The way of exploitation of capitalism in the primary stage is simple, direct, and brutal, while the way of exploitation of capitalism in the advanced stage has become more subtle and diversified, so that the exploited can have an illusion and live a good life.

  Many people enjoy it even if they are gang-raped in various ways every day. I have never seen them excited like a fight or quarrel. It's really fragrant.

   When Masayoshi Kishimoto returned with the book, a cup of mocha coffee was already placed on the spot he had chosen. He put the two books on the wooden small round table in front of him.

  Kishimoto Masayoshi first picked up Kobayashi Takiji's "Crab Worker Ship" to read. Although it is a long novel, the book is not thick, and it can be read casually in one or two hours.

   It's still early before I eat dinner at seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Natsume Soseki's "Sanshiro" is enough to make up for the rest of his time after watching "Kanman Ship".

In Masayoshi Kishimoto's view, "Sanshiro" is not only the first prelude in the "trilogy" of RB writer Natsume Soseki, but is hailed as the best youth novel in Soseki's literature, and reflects the insurmountable gap of the RB class. , or a compromise that has to be made when facing reality.

   Even if the heroine likes the hero a little bit, the heroine's elder brother also has an appreciative attitude towards the hero, which makes it impossible for the two of them to be together.

  The heroine finally married another man of the same class as her. The background of the male protagonist is a poor student who was admitted to a university in Tokyo from Kumamoto High School.

Kumamoto, a small place in RB, will be famous in future generations, and many Chinese people will remember the name, not because of Natsume Soseki's "Sanshiro", one is the cute mascot Kumamon, and the other is the best strawberry in the whole RB, The third is earthquake.

   A person whom the male protagonist met on the train at the beginning boldly mentioned the argument that RB will sooner or later die with the current development path.

   After he went to the university in Tokyo, he thought he read a lot, and liked the unpopular and unpopular. In fact, when he borrowed an unpopular and unpopular book from the library to read, he found that someone had already corrected the mistake with a pencil on the page, which shocked him and truly understood. What is it that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the human being.

  When I was in Kumamoto, I was like a frog in the well. Furthermore, it was the dazzling Tokyo that the metropolis brought him, as well as the various shocks in his heart.

   All of this is in Kishimoto's view, the college students who passed the college entrance examination like the male protagonist, were admitted to the university, and entered the big city from a small place are the same.

   Whether it is Kobayashi Takiji's "Crab Worker Ship" or Natsume Soseki's "Sanshiro", even if the book was written very early, it did not make the core feel outdated at all.

The charm of    serious literature lies in its ability to reflect human nature. As for the background, there are various senses of the times in different periods.

   Kishimoto Masayoshi is not nostalgic, nor does he think that books must keep up with the so-called sense of the times. A good work, even after a hundred years, is still a good work. Rubbish, even the latest, is still rubbish.

   He believes that reading is not about the quantity, but the method. No matter how many books you read, if the method is wrong, it will be in vain. Furthermore, be sure to develop good reading habits, preferably half an hour every day to read before going to bed.

   Masayoshi Kishimoto knows that from the perspective of wealth, reading cannot directly increase his assets, but it can increase his wisdom, and indirectly provides strong intellectual support for the increase of his wealth.

   "When the book is used up, I hate it less." That is because there is not a good accumulation of books on weekdays. Under the Asian financial crisis, some people chose to go to the billiards room, while others chose to study. He belongs to the latter.

   (end of this chapter)